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network (French commuter rail). The train is the electric variant of Bombardier AGC, often referred to as ZGC. It the most important fleet of all other AGC variants. It is capable of operating on a or

electricity supply Mains electricity or utility power, power grid, domestic power, and wall power, or in some parts of Canada as hydro, is a general-purpose alternating-current (AC) electric power supply. It is the form of electrical power that is delivered to h ...

. A total of 211 trainsets have been built by

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conglomerate Bombardier at its factory in Crespin (near

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) since 2005. The first set (Z 27503/27504) was placed into regular passenger service on 24 March 2005, for the Basse-Normandie region.

Design

Bombardier vehicle design is

articulated An articulated vehicle is a vehicle which has a permanent or semi-permanent pivot joint in its construction, allowing it to turn more sharply. There are many kinds, from heavy equipment to buses, trams and trains. Steam locomotives were sometim ...

using bogies between carriages. The Z 27500 are available in three or four-car unit. The train can be operated as a multiple-unit control with up to three units, with other Z 27500 or the dual-mode version Diesel/ ( B 81500). The train is equipped with 2 pantographs on the intermediate car. Their capacity offers 160 seats in a three-car unit, 220 in a four-car set. The inter-carriage passages have wide, open

gangway connection A gangway connection (or, more loosely, a corridor connection) is a flexible connector fitted to the end of a railway coach, enabling passengers to move from one coach to another without danger of falling from the train. Origins: Coaches in Br ...

s, limiting

bottleneck Bottleneck literally refers to the narrowed portion (neck) of a bottle near its opening, which limit the rate of outflow, and may describe any object of a similar shape. The literal neck of a bottle was originally used to play what is now known as ...

ing. The Z 27500 from

Lorraine Lorraine , also , , ; Lorrain: ''Louréne''; Lorraine Franconian: ''Lottringe''; german: Lothringen ; lb, Loutrengen; nl, Lotharingen is a cultural and historical region in Northeastern France, now located in the administrative region of Gra ...

region can be operated as a multiple-unit control with the Diesel variant (), specifically equipped with a command to raise the pantograph. Whereas the first trains were delivered in their three-car set version (with an intermediate car), several regions later added a second intermediate car, in order to increase their capacity from 160 to 220 seats.

Photo gallery

File:Z 27653 intérieur1.JPG, Interior, show 2+2 seatings (second class) File:Intérieur ZGC Pays de la Loire 2010 (classe 1).JPG, First class interior File:Z 27519-520 sortant du grill marchandise en gare d'Amiens.jpg, Z 27500 in its three-car set version File:AGC Z 27500.jpg, Z 27500 in its four-car set version File:Z 27621-22 + Z 27575-76 + B 82791-92 à Amiens - 16 juin 2019.jpg, Two Z 27500 and one B 82500 being coupled for multiple working File:Vélo AGC TER Alsace 27042012.jpg, Bikes storage space on the train

Operators and routes

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* Moulins-sur-Allier -

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- Laroche - Migennes * Dijon -

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* Dijon -

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- Belfort * Dijon -

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- Pontarlier *

- Mouchard - Lons-le-Saunier * Lyon - Lons-le-Saunier -

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* Belfort - Meroux - Delle

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* Brest -

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* Rennes - Nantes * Rennes -

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* Rennes - Saint-Brieuc * Rennes -

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* Redon -

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- Bourges * Tours -

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Orléans Orléans (;"Orleans"
(US) and Saumur * Tours - Poitiers * Orléans -

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* Strasbourg -

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- Sarrebourg * Strasbourg -

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* Mulhouse -

* Mulhouse - Colmar * Reims -

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- Sedan * Reims -

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* Nancy -

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* Nancy - Reims * Nancy - Saint-Dié-des-Vosges * Nancy - Longwy * Nancy - Metz * Nancy - Strasbourg *

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- Strasbourg * Metz -

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- Cherbourg * Lisieux -

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* Lisieux - Trouville-Deauville * Elbeuf - Saint-Aubin - Rouen - Yvetot * Rouen -

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* Rouen -

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* Rouen -

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- Avignon * Cerbère or Portbou -

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* Béziers - Neussargues *

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* Toulouse -

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* Toulouse -

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* Toulouse - Latour de Carol - Enveitg * Toulouse - Pau

TER Pays de la Loire TER Pays de la Loire is the regional rail network serving Pays de la Loire, France. TER Network The rail and bus network as of May 2022: *
Nantes station Nantes station ( French: ''Gare de Nantes'') is the principal passenger railway station serving the French city of Nantes. It is a through station aligned east–west, with entrances and station facilities on both north and south sides. The two ...
- Les Sables-d'Olonne *
Le Mans station Le Mans (French: ''Gare du Mans'') is a railway station serving the town Le Mans, Sarthe department, western France. It is situated on the Paris–Brest railway, Le Mans–Angers railway The railway from Le Mans to Angers is an important Fren ...
- Le Croisic * Angers station - Thouars * Saint-Nazaire station -
Redon Redon (; ) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. Geography Redon borders the Morbihan and Loire-Atlantique departments. It is situated at the junction of t ...
* Redon - Nantes * Nantes - Rennes * Rennes - Le Mans

Distribution of orders

Accidents
*
Runaway train A runaway train is a type of railroad incident in which unattended rolling stock is accidentally allowed to roll onto the main line, a moving train loses enough braking power to be unable to stop in safety, or a train operates at unsafe speeds d ...

TER Ter or TER may refer to: Places * River Ter, in Essex, England * Ter (river), in Catalonia * Ter (department), a region in France * Torre (river), (Slovene: ''Ter''), a river in Italy * Ter, Ljubno, a settlement in the Municipality of Ljubno ob ...
''Z 27500'' between Formerie, Serqueux and Sommery on 20 October 2015. This incident occurred after the train hit 2 cows just after the Formerie station, without causing victims. * Accident between a train
TER Ter or TER may refer to: Places * River Ter, in Essex, England * Ter (river), in Catalonia * Ter (department), a region in France * Torre (river), (Slovene: ''Ter''), a river in Italy * Ter, Ljubno, a settlement in the Municipality of Ljubno ob ...
''Z 27500'' and a stuck trailer truck on 16 October 2019 on the crossing n°70 at Boulzicourt. This accident caused the
derailment In rail transport, a derailment occurs when a rail vehicle such as a train comes off its rails. Although many derailments are minor, all result in temporary disruption of the proper operation of the railway system and they are a potentially ...
of the train. 2 passengers were slightly injured as well as the train driver.

Models
* The LS Models brand makes a model of the Z 27500 in 3 or 4-car set version in
HO gauge HO or H0 is a rail transport modelling scale using a 1:87 scale (3.5 mm to 1 foot). It is the most popular scale of model railway in the world. The rails are spaced apart for modelling standard gauge tracks and trains in HO.NMRA"M ...
. * Different versions of AGC can be downloaded (free or paid) for
Train Simulator A train simulator (also railroad simulator or railway simulator) is a computer based simulation of rail transport operations. They are generally large complicated software packages modeling a 3D virtual reality world implemented both as comme ...
game.

Future
SNCF has announced on 18 March 2021, that 40% of the
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(French commuter rail) fleet will be renovated in the next 10 years, included Z 27500 Class.

See also
*
List of SNCF classes List of locomotive and multiple unit classes of SNCF. Classes in bold are in use, whilst those in ''italics'' have been withdrawn. Numbering Scheme Locomotives and Multiple Units Vehicle numbers are three to six digits long. The first (not alw ...
* Autorail à grande capacité (AGC) *

References

Literature
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